GERMAN REPUBLICANS!!!

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[Bismarck]

There's a German political community called Dol2day at http://www.dol2day.com And there is even a Republican Party represented:

http://www.dol2day.com/index.php3?partei_id=223&position=1900

These guys are hard-core pro-America.

[Bismarck]

Click on:

http://www.dol2day.com/index.php3?partei_id=223&position=1900

[GeronL]

interesting,

[weegee]

You can translate web pages to english with this:


http://babelfish.altavista.com/

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Nijenhof - chancellors for Dol2day

The RP@Dol and the FCP support together the TEAM Nijenhof. According to statement of the candidate for the chancellorship Ruediger Mirco Nijenhof its government team sees itself particularly as a civil government and wants the renewed drawing in linking into the DOL chancellorship to prevent.
Nijenhof uses itself for a thorough reform of DOL, so that it makes also "on long time fun with Dol2day to be active", but he wants to right after create the choice victory an advisor committee, which is to develop ideas and ways to the modernization of Dol2day together with its government. Nijenhof is particularly important thereby the Ini and the inquiry problem. Thus give it much too many Inis, the not straight from activity strotzen and too many stupid inquiries, which would thus make simply to durchgewunken and the fun more difficult at Dol2day.

The TEAM Nijenhof consists of:

CHANCELLOR:

Nijenhof (RP@Dol)
Vice-chancellor:

@CHG (IDL)/ GeorgeHW (RP@Dol)
Chancellery minister: Load-wipe (RP@Dol)

Undersecretary of state technology/Chat:

Serbion (FCP)/ R.Nixon (RP@Dol)
Minister for law: Mad punt (FCP)/FreeMind (IDL)
Minister for Interna: D.Rumsfeld (RP@Dol)/ Michel _ (JUD)

Minister for marketing/RL:

Matzemaen (FCP)/ DanielGOP (RP@Dol)
Special Minister to the Refom of DOL:

Tim. (people)/Styler (FCP)

We hope that Nijenhof will be successful and Dol2day thereby will become interesting for many new Doler also.
Press Committee

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The Republican Oath

I believe that the proper function of government is to do for the people those things that have to be done but cannot be done, or cannot be done as well by individuals, and that the most effective government is government closest to the people.

I believe that good government is based on the individual and that each person's ability, dignity, freedom and responsibility must be honored and recognized.

I believe that free enterprise and the encouragement of individual initiative and incentive have given this nation an economic system second to none.

I believe that sound money policy should be our goal.

I believe in equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, age, sex or national origin. I believe that persons with disabilities should be afforded equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity as well.

I believe we must retain those principles worth retaining, yet always be receptive to new ideas with an outlook broad enough to accommodate thoughtful change and varying points of view.

I believe that Americans value and should preserve their feeling of national strength and pride, and at the same time share with people everywhere a desire for peace and freedom and the extension of human rights throughout the world.

Finally, I believe that the Republican Party is the best vehicle for translating these ideals into positive and successful principles of government.

[Petronski]

Ich bien ein scheptik.

[Fraulein]

Sehr interessant.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Of interest?

[ConservativeMan55]

Interesting.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I believe we must retain those principles worth retaining, yet always be receptive to new ideas with an outlook broad enough to accommodate thoughtful change and varying points of view.

I believe that

"to . . . secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity"

is the overall mission statement of benevolent government, and that any other mission statement is either a portion of that overall mission statement - or else not truly the mission of government.

The only issue to question in that mission statement is, IMHO, whether it should read "our Posterity," or simply "to posterity." That is, if truly "all men are created equal," the mission of government should be ultimately to realize that truth globally. Without any implication that blood and treasure should be expended in foreign adventures solely on that account, it is yet true that if other things are essentially equal American government should further the extension of "the blessings of liberty."

After all the blessings of liberty include peace, and that is not a local but an international blessing. And that is a factor in Iraq.

[rageaholic]

I worked in Germany for a few years, and noticed many Germans are hard-core pro American.

In fact, its difficult to find Germans who like their own government or believe their government accurately represents their opinions. They often complain the Bundesregierung are weaklings who pander to criminals of every stripe.

Recently my German friends were cheering the US invasion of Iraq, and lamenting Israel does too little to defend itself. There are plenty of unemployable lefties over there to be sure, but I think there is a wide gap between what the Chancellor says and what the average taxpaying German thinks.

[Redbob]

That's an easy one:
OUR posterity.

[Prodigal Son]

Impossible. Just ask Blue Lancer. There are no pro-American Germans, much less pro-Republican ones.

[buffyt]

My husband's family came to USA a couple of generations ago from Germany. They are a large family, and they are all very conservative. They vote Republican. I don't know what is wrong with so many people in the Old Country. My family came from France, Germany, England, etc. Some were already here - Cherokee.

[spodefly]

Pinging our new FRiend from Germany.

[axel f]

Yep. I studied in Germany for a summer and found the people mostly very pro-US. My host family loved America. My sister participated in the same program and had the same experience.

There are even pro-American, pro-Bush French, if you can believe that. I emailed back and forth with one of them for a few weeks. Maybe I should invite him to join FR.

[BlueLancer]

"Just ask Blue Lancer."

Thank you for the kind endorsement. I'll be giving advice and signing autographs in the lobby.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Wir sind die PRO-AMERIKA-PARTEI!

Wir sind die GOP!



Might be Bush's re-election Werbespruch.

[Criminal Number 18F]

In the 1980s when Die Republikaner started up, they made a cottage industry of baiting the communist and pro-communist people. Their written policy statements at the time seemed right of most German parties but not objectionable. But most Germans (not just lefties) thought of them as an extremist party, and they are constantly being charged with antisemitism.

They remain a tiny fringe in Germany. Many of the Germans who are pro US have not joined Die Republikaner. I don' know what they have done or said to cause this.

During the 80s in the states you were constantly seeing anti-nuclear and nuc freeze protests. AT least where I lived at the time in Bavaria, you could see posters like "Lieber'ne Pershing im Garten als'ne SS-20 auf'm Dach" ("Better a Pershing in the garden than an SS-20 on the roof!") with a picture of a Russian missile about to make a mess of a delightful Tyrolean cottage, or "Wer sich nich wehrt, dem geht verkehrt" ("He who does not defend himself gets run over") with an illustration of a porcupine and a callout identifying him as the NATO nuclear force.

You never saw the people who were for NATO, or for US troops, or for nuclear power in the media... but they were all around you in the real world.

In American schoolbooks they have taken out the Berlin Airlift, Kennedy's "Ich Bin ein Berliner" speech, and they never put in the most important: Reagan's, "Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall." But Germans read about all these things in school. They know how their country lost its unity, who was responsible, and who helped them get it back.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Muleteam1]

>>My husband's family came to USA a couple of generations ago from Germany. They are a large family, and they are all very conservative. They vote Republican.<<

Your story is interesting. My wife's family came from Austria four generations ago to Minnesota. All were conservative, as is my wonderful wife of 32 years. I like to say that my Republican father-in-law taught me everything I know as I came from a family of old southern Democrats. My wife's parents are now gone to their reward, but recently I found a photo postcard signed to my father-in-law by George H. Bush thanking him for a contribution to his campaign.

Muleteam1

[Bringbackthedraft]

If they don't like America why are there so many of them in Florida this time of the year?